Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I...
DICK VAN DYKE Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l...
DICK VAN DYKE 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's produce...
DICK VAN DYKE For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
DICK VAN DYKE I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
DICK VAN DYKE I wanted to be a radio announcer.
DICK VAN DYKE When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took...
DICK VAN DYKE When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took...
DICK VAN DYKE I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who al...
DICK VAN DYKE Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
DICK VAN DYKE When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got...
DICK VAN DYKE When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don&#...
DICK VAN DYKE The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there...
DICK VAN DYKE The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil...
DICK VAN DYKE I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
DICK VAN DYKE I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it ...
DICK VAN DYKE I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually s...
DICK VAN DYKE In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living...
DICK VAN DYKE No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, ...
DICK VAN DYKE I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
DICK VAN DYKE Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronk...
DICK VAN DYKE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
DICK VAN DYKE 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life...
DICK VAN DYKE All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We wer...
DICK VAN DYKE Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, ...
DICK VAN DYKE I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a gr...
DICK VAN DYKE I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van...
DICK VAN DYKE I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my li...
DICK VAN DYKE I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the...
DICK VAN DYKE You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
DICK VAN DYKE Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life,...
DICK VAN DYKE I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandf...
DICK VAN DYKE I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.
DICK VAN DYKE Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
DICK VAN DYKE Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won...
DICK VAN DYKE In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insi...
DICK VAN DYKE There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course....
DICK VAN DYKE One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Sta...
DICK VAN DYKE No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were reall...
DICK VAN DYKE My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
DICK VAN DYKE I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the...
DICK VAN DYKE My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
DICK VAN DYKE I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece he...
DICK VAN DYKE The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a lit...
DICK VAN DYKE I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it&#...
DICK VAN DYKE 'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.
DICK VAN DYKE Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
DICK VAN DYKE I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl...
DICK VAN DYKE I love to harmonize.
DICK VAN DYKE Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether P...
DICK VAN DYKE But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them a...
DICK VAN DYKE Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li...
DICK VAN DYKE I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and th...
DICK VAN DYKE We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our littl...
DICK VAN DYKE I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, ...
DICK VAN DYKE So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did ...
DICK VAN DYKE Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
DICK VAN DYKE My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med stud...
DICK VAN DYKE Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It...
DICK VAN DYKE Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
HENRY VAN DYKE Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
HENRY VAN DYKE It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...
HENRY VAN DYKE There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are...
HENRY VAN DYKE In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...
HENRY VAN DYKE Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
HENRY VAN DYKE What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
HENRY VAN DYKE There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bra...
HENRY VAN DYKE The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th...
HENRY VAN DYKE Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sta...
HENRY VAN DYKE As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emer...
HENRY VAN DYKE Time is too slow for those who wait
too swift for those who fear
too long for those who grieve...
HENRY VAN DYKE Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
LEROY VAN DYKE Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, To...
HENRY VAN DYKE Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from...
HENRY VAN DYKE There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...
HENRY VAN DYKE I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls u...
HENRY VAN DYKE Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home<...
HENRY VAN DYKE Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome gues...
HENRY VAN DYKE Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...
HENRY VAN DYKE There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad abo...
HENRY VAN DYKE There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
HENRY VAN DYKE The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between th...
HENRY VAN DYKE Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang b...
HENRY VAN DYKE Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, to...
HENRY VAN DYKE Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice...
HENRY VAN DYKE Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 Who seeks for he...
HENRY VAN DYKE There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously....
HENRY VAN DYKE Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and strang...
HENRY VAN DYKE Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While...
HENRY VAN DYKE Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--lo...
HENRY VAN DYKE Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those t...
HENRY VAN DYKE Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say
HENRY VAN DYKE Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang...
HENRY VAN DYKE Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
HENRY VAN DYKE Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those tha...
HENRY VAN DYKE Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
HENRY VAN DYKE What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But ...
HENRY VAN DYKE Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
HENRY VAN DYKE A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
HENRY VAN DYKE Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those tha...
HENRY VAN DYKE Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
HENRY VAN DYKE Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas t...
HENRY VAN DYKE Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
HENRY VAN DYKE I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s...
HENRY VAN DYKE Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for th...
HENRY VAN DYKE Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers...
HENRY VAN DYKE Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why
HENRY VAN DYKE There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us
HENRY VAN DYKE It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest...
HENRY VAN DYKE Genius is talent set on fire by courage
HENRY VAN DYKE Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are
HENRY VAN DYKE When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for t...
HENRY VAN DYKE Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key
HENRY VAN DYKE Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest
HENRY VAN DYKE Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stron...
HENRY VAN DYKE Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
HENRY VAN DYKE Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody’s home.
TOM VAN DYKE Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers...
HENRY VAN DYKE Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; HENRY VAN DYKE But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...
HENRY VAN DYKE Son of Krypton!
KIRSTIN VAN DYKE Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; ...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those wh...
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals a...
DICK VAN PATTEN I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that ha...
DICK VAN PATTEN If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a sna...
DICK VAN PATTEN I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
DICK VAN PATTEN We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's ...
DICK VAN PATTEN I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You k...
DICK VAN PATTEN I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
DICK VAN PATTEN I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the office...
DICK VAN PATTEN Jefferson Forest took it to us in the first half. They came out very intense with a great effort.
WARNER DYKE We could do with beating Sunderland and getting Manchester United away.
GREG DYKE We would like to be away at Old Trafford, or at Chelsea if they beat Everton.
GREG DYKE Probably not 'War and Peace,' but probably a lot of sports clips,
GREG DYKE Now, if that's how she reacted to the arrival of a new television set and having to learn how to use...
GREG DYKE It's changing faster now than ever because of digital.
GREG DYKE I'm not going to talk about Hutton now, but I will at some stage. And I don't necessarily accept the...
GREG DYKE I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu...
GREG DYKE I was number one in the Guardian's top 100 people in the media two years ago. Last year I was number...
GREG DYKE If Iraq proved anything, it was that the BBC cannot afford to mix patriotism and journalism. This is...
GREG DYKE We're concerned with the long-term economic prosperity of Rowan County: jobs, jobs, jobs.
DYKE MESSINGER I'm as excited about this as anything we've ever worked on. There's a lot that's right about the cou...
DYKE MESSINGER We're not telling the story of Rowan County, and we need to do that.
DYKE MESSINGER I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN [In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON